June Roundtable Discussion--Free for all With Kate Farrell, editor of Wisdom Has a Voice, and guests June 9, 2012 4 PM PDT 5 PM MDT 6 PM CDT 7 PM EDT Creating an anthology of memoirs is a wonderful way to gather voices and diverse themes—and you as the editor can choose your themes, authors, and the voices you want to showcase. Many writers don’t yet have a full memoir completed, but they have amazing stories—and perhaps you do too. Creating an anthology—why, how, and … [Read more...]
When we write memoir, we are passionate to get our book out into the world, and we need to find a way that works best for the kind of book that we have, and a way that works with our budget, our goals, and our audience. As everyone knows, the publishing industry is exploding with many choices these days, and by next week no doubt there will be more. At the Telesummit last week, we heard such terrific tips and information from Mark Coker of Smashwords, Dan Blank, WeGrowMedia.com, Tessa Smith … [Read more...]
Free Roundtable Event April 5, 2012 4 PM PDT 5 PM MDT 6 PM CDT 7 PM EDT Learn from these creative and courageous women about the choices they made to publish their memoirs. Jonna self-published on Kindle, and Denise spent many years looking to be traditionally published. They will talk about why they made these choices and discuss the pros and cons of each method. Presentation points: Fear of telling the truth, and how that affects the publishing journey Seeking an agent and/or … [Read more...]
Brooke Warner, Senior Editor at Seal Press, and Linda Joy Myers, President of NAMW are opening up a discussion about techniques that help you get unstuck--ways to conquer the walls that rise up to impede our memoir journey. As memoirists, we know how writing is a long journey, with many different phases. Understanding these phases in the writing process is important—writing and creating an art form is all about process, not just the goal. Most writers we work with in our coaching and … [Read more...]
You write and write on your memoir, and everything you think of reminds you of something else that doesn’t fit just here, but you don’t know what to do with it. Monkey mind! you think. Adult ADHD, perhaps. How on earth am I ever going to sort this all out and make sense of it? Don’t you wish you could turn your head upside down over a newspaper — or maybe a clean sheet on the dining room table — and dump it all out, sort of like the picture you see here? Maybe then you could look at … [Read more...]
We have declared 2012 The Year of the Memoir, and in our first event of the year, we’re going to plant seeds to help you envision yourself as a successful published author and take steps to build your audience—your platform—as it’s called by agents and publishers. Our Roundtable Discussion leader this month is Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart and Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days. Teresa will talk with us about ways to create success in your writing … [Read more...]
It's the season of giving! The scent of peppermint and wet wool, pine needles and candles, get us into the spirit of giving from our hearts--even for the Scrouges among us. Have you ever thought about the full circle that happens when we write a memoir? When we're tuned into the layers of our story, if we allow ourselves to wake up to the special quality of the memories we have, we feel nurtured, proud of ourselves, happier. I have written already about the studies about healing, … [Read more...]
NAMW Roundtable Discussion FREE for ALL December 8 4 PST 5 MST 6 CST 7 EST with Rachael Herron & Nicole Johns Topic: The Gift of Memoir Rachael Herron Join us in a discussion of how to frame memory into something more than just an off-the-cuff dinner party story. The truth, retold, can be liberating, entertaining, educational, and amusing -- sometimes all at the same time. Writing memoir is about finding your own truth and expressing it in the clearest, most … [Read more...]
I'm so pleased to be sharing my version of the journey of memoir writing at Nina Amir's special blog to celebrate National Lifewriting Month! This is the month that memoir writers join the fiction folks over at NaNoWriMo to write as much as 50,000 words in 30 days. That is 6.5 pages a day. Can you do it? Are you willing to dedicate a couple of hours a day to see just how much you can write? Tips for what we'll call MemoirWriMo: 1. Write fast, let 'er rip. 2. Feed your … [Read more...]
Everyone is invited to join Denis LeDoux & Nina Amir at this FREE Memoir Writing Tele-conversation To celebrate National LifeWriting Month and Write Nonfiction in November, a parallel to the National Novel Writing Month event that draws writers from all over the world, we want to bring our own experts to NAMW to talk about how to write quickly, freely, and A LOT to celebrate our lifestories, memoirs, and nonfiction. We are pleased to have Nina and Denis talk with us … [Read more...]
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